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SSAC VP Marketing & Sales, Mark Fairchild told AVweb yesterday that “Taiwan continues to support our program and at the same time is looking for additional investors … to help increase our production rate and move the company to where we need to go to become the company we want to be.” He added that […]

Pilots at the U.K.’s Houses of Parliament on June 18 made a case that airline pilots and cabin crew are being exposed to toxic oil contaminants that are ultimately rendering them victims of “aerotoxic syndrome” and medically forced into retirement, according to NewScientist.com. As a result of the complaints, two investigations are being opened that […]

With the home-field advantage, France-based Airbus appears to have vaulted ahead of Boeing in terms of aircraft orders thanks to some large contracts signed at the Paris Air Show. USA Today is pegging Airbus’s 2007 order total at about 600, including a staggering 400 announced at Le Bourget. Boeing has gathered about 510 orders in […]

Does the concept of “see and avoid” apply to car drivers on airports? What about the notion of right of way at taxiway intersections? According to The Associated Press, both will be up to a judge to decide in a lawsuit launched by an Aurora, Ore., pilot and airport business owner against the FBI. Marlowe […]

An anonymous buyer has paid almost $500,000 extra for the privilege of jumping the line to buy a Cessna Citation Mustang. When the Mustang was first announced, Sporty’s Pilot Shops owner Hal Shevers was among the first to put down a deposit and he got the 13th position. Rather than keep the twinjet (and give […]

An Arkansas man who runs Mena Aircraft Propellers Inc. in Mena, Ark., has been convicted of fraud and making false statements concerning aircraft parts in connection with activities at his former business, Millennium Propeller Systems Inc. at Lancaster Airport near Dallas. According to bizjournals.com, John Wentzell Downs lost the FAA certification for his former business […]

Indian River County and the city of Vero Beach, Fla., have upped the ante to keep Piper Aircraft in Vero Beach and that presumably has kept the company’s current home town in the running for an increasingly high-stakes competition for the storied planemaker. According to TCPalm.com The civic governments have approved a package that includes […]

The Washington Post says Democrats’ attempts to turn back the clock on the FAA’s relationship with its air traffic controllers are behind the delay in getting the controversial FAA reauthorization bill introduced in the House of Representatives. The bill was expected to be in the House by late last week, but is now anticipated for […]

The FAA is offering experienced air traffic controllers (military or civilian) a $20,000 signing bonus if they’ll come back to the console for as little as two years. In an announcement on its own recruiting site and on the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management site, the FAA is offering the carrot in what appears […]

The president and vice president of the union representing air traffic controllers in Brazil are facing arrest after controllers staged a four-day work slowdown that caused numerous flight delays and sparked violence at some terminals last week. President Carlos Trifilio and Vice President Moises Gomes de Almeida will likely be arrested next week on charges […]